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Transactions in the Caffey Tract
The following references to the deed records all involve the Caffey tract. The number or letter before the slash is the volume number and the number after the slash is the page number. The first sale to James Bailey is by Henry Caffey and his wife Isabella Jane. All subsequent sales are by some combination of the widow and the children Francis, Levy Ann, and Robert.
a) Caffeys --> James Bailey, Feb 27, 1854, P/402, 36 1/2 acres
James Bailey & Jethro McKee --> C. L. Bethje, Dec 3, 1857, T/430
b) Caffeys --> M. C. Adams, Apr 9, 1864, 13/90, 20 acres
c) Caffeys --> R. H. Roco, March 16, 1870, 8/462, 12 1/2 acres
For subsequent transactions in the Adams and Roco tracts see 17/72, 24/216, 26/540, 32/559, 32/619, 330/338, 131/408, 131/411, 192/7.
The following transactions refer to the Caffey tract south of the 12 1/2 tract that they sold to R. H. Roco mentioned in c) above. The numbers refer to the accompanying maps.
1) Caffeys --> Tony Prass & Rachael Prass, Dec 12, 1870, 9B/99, 1 acre
2) Caffeys --> Zack Bryan (fmc), July 18, 1871, 10/78, 3 acres
3) Caffeys --> Moses Johnson, Apr 8, 1872, 10/407, 2 acres
see also Caffeys --> John Ray, Barney Ray,
May 23, 1898, 115/442
4) Caffeys --> Louis Lemmons, Nov 7, 1881, 41/129, 1 acre
5) Caffeys --> Edward Rosco, Nov 7, 1881, 24/231, .26 acre
6) Caffeys --> Ed Cobb, May 23, 1889, 50/241, 2 acres
7) Caffeys --> Albert Spiller, Nov 23, 1872, 17/253, 2 acres
8) Caffeys --> Charles Scott & wife, 1877, 21/788, 2 acres
9) Caffeys --> George Parker, May 23, 1889, 44/569, 10.9 + 3.6 acres
10) Caffeys --> Cy Dillingham, 1886, 43/99, 1/2 acre
11) Caffeys --> Frank Washington, Mar 18, 1886, 44/495, 1/2 acre
12) Caffeys --> Anthony Gomer, Mar 26, 1889, 49/173, 1.3 acre
13) Caffeys --> John Booker, Mar 16, 1886, 42/546, 3 acres
14) Caffeys --> Phillis Neal, Apr 12, 1880, 20/464, 2 acres
15) Caffeys --> Jerry Smith & wife, Mar 16, 1886, 41/204, 1 acre
16) Caffeys --> Prince Chaney, Feb 22, 1879, 18/473, 6.1 acres
17) Caffeys --> Emily McKissick, Mar 16, 1886, 75/187, 1 acre
18) Caffeys --> Austin Lee, Mar 18, 1886, 41/476, 7.8 acres
19) Caffeys --> Edward Rosco, Nov 7, 1881, 24/231, .92 acre for
cemetery
Edward Rosco, Aug 22, 1894, 78/294, same tract
Edward Rosco, July 5, 1897, 101/334, same tract
20) Caffeys --> W. E. Smith, Nov 7, 1881, 34/293, 1 acre
Jeff Salter --> Albert Spiller, Oct 25, 1893, 74/662, 2 lots
21) Caffeys --> Mary Mayfield, July 21, 1885, 34/291, 2/3 acre
22) Caffeys --> H. F. Hurd, Feb 3, 1881, 28/69, 4 1/2 acres
see also 61/212, June 24, 1892 for
lawsuit Hurd vs. George Parker
23) Caffeys --> H. F. Ring, Sept 12, 1890, 52/229, 1 acre
24) Caffeys --> W. J. Coulter, Feb 4, 1890, 55/288, 1.77 + 2.47 acres
25) Caffeys --> W. J. Coulter, Jan 7, 1892, 54/437, 1.74 acres
W. J. Coulter --> B. A. Riesner, Sept 13, 1892, 60/457,
1.77+2.47+1.74 acres
26) Caffeys --> William Warnicke, July 27, 1888, 49/428, 3 1/2 acres
Warnicke --> Davis
Rozina P. Davis & J. O. Davis --> Wm. Fuchs, Feb 28, 1912, 285/138
27) Caffeys --> H. F. Hurd, Jan 31, 1893, 66/47, 1 lot in CHR
H. F. Hurd --> B. A. Riesner, Aug 9, 1893, 68/655
28) Caffeys --> B. A. Riesner, May 6, 1893, 68/45, 1 lot in CHR
29) Caffeys --> B. A. Riesner, Sept 8, 1893, 71/106, 1 lot in CHR
30) Caffeys --> B. A. Riesner, July 17, 1895, 82/500, 1 lot in CHR
B. A. Riesner --> Wm. Fuchs, 261/339, 6.9 acres
31) Caffeys --> trustees of M. E. Church, Mar 18, 1886,
39/192, 1/2 acre
Caffeys --> Zachariah Scott & wife Lizzie, June 1, 1889,
45/108, 1/2 acre
I was never able to figure out precisely where the two tracts mentioned in 31) were located, but they are close to the tract numbered 31. I was also not able to determine a location for the following 2 tracts.
d) Caffeys --> Cornelius & Compey Goode, Feb 3, 1873, 2 acres
e) Caffeys --> G. M. Anderson, Oct 30, 1896, 94/148, 1 lot